Academic profession studies of the future: Big data should complement surveys and interviews, while macro-level analyses should accompany micro-level studies. ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ih...

AI & Society faculty opportunity posted just this month with a start date of Fall 2025 and beyond: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734 ‼️🐂 For "interdisciplinary scholars whose research agenda connects the study of AI with humanistic and/or social scientific line(s) of study"

"Your best chance of winning comes when you’re 54, the age of 24 recipients. The average age of all laureates is 58." www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Just a reminder that this is tomorrow!

"A team of neurologists and AI specialists at MIT's Media Lab has led a study looking into the brain impacts of large language model (LLM) use among people who engage with them for study or work". phys.org/news/2025-06...

"Although the latest data predate the current Trump administration, observers warn that funding cuts will accelerate the rate of China’s gain" www.nature.com/nature-index...

Good to remember! It is all about probabilities!

My short programmatic paper just out! "Traditional social scientists must now compete with data scientists and computational social scientists, who increasingly focus on issues long explored in higher education research". ihe.bc.edu/pub/7j5k6uda...

Interested in publication #productivity from a scientist's #lifetime perspective? Listen to this 12 minutes #discussion of my research! youtube.com/watch?v=WcRt...

"Companies selling authorship slots thrive in a culture that equates success with a strong publication record. Customers, sleuths and the shadowy owner of a paper mill explain why." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"With massive increases in computing power and data storage, AI can perform some of the same tasks through the blunt forces of processing and analysis that higher ed has traditionally helped to hone in humans." www.highereddive.com/news/ai-whit...

War on talents... "Across China, cities and provinces are seeking researchers, students and innovators — both homegrown and from abroad. In return, they’re offering large sums of money, as well as housing, health care, work for their spouses and other benefits." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thank you @Stanford @METRICS for this seminar on high research productivity! It was a great experience! It is now on YouTube! Thanks so much. Fourth time, once a year... youtube.com/watch?v=E-ye...

Interested in research on #"leaving science" conceptualized as #"quitting #publishing"? Here is the story told in 16 minutes, an excellent discussion! Kwiek, Marek, Szymula, Lukasz. #Quantifying attrition in science: a study of scientists in 38 countries www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hpw...

Part of a global battle for talent - across China, cities & provinces are seeking researchers, students & innovators. In return, they’re offering large sums of money, as well as housing, health care, work for their spouses & other benefits…. #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

3/3 ⚖️ Yes—underperformance increases the risk of leaving academia. But this applies to both men and women, challenging the idea that academic attrition is solely driven by performance-based self-selection.

I recently presented at INAS2025 in NYC: “Why women leave academia? A longitudinal study of the leaky pipeline in German sociology” Thanks to @womensforuminas.bsky.social and the INAS attendees for the inspiring exchange, and @europeatharvard.bsky.social for their support! 📝 Preprint👇

Becoming a university #chancellor comes at a cost: research output. A study of 200 top global universities shows a significant drop in article publication after chancellorship begins—especially for active, male, and North American chancellors. www.j-jdis.com/EN/10.2478/j...

Two days with #UNESCO in #Advisory Board of GEM - Global Education Monitoring. Extremely interesting work with and for a UN agency. Let us not #underestimate (and #underfund) global organizations, they still have enough power to prepare solid - and consequential - global reports!

Yes. Today. 9:00-10:00 AM PT, 18:00-19:00 CET time. Fully prepared. There will be a lot of (research) fun.

Yes. Tomorrow. Confirmed.

"This is not a withdrawal from global science, but a strategic recalibration. Wen’s argument – building on Henri Lefebvre and Simon Marginson’s work – positions space-making as an active reconfiguration of material, symbolic and institutional terrain." www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

"This move, part of a broader pattern of Trump-era interventions, exemplifies a troubling trend: states increasingly assert control over global academic mobility." www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

This is what I wrote: "A perfect intro to a globally underexamined field. Written by the world's most respected scholar in private h ed, this book shows the power of a theoretically sophisticated approach to the changing dynamics of privateness & publicness in h ed." global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Interested why scholars and scientists publish in top journals? Look, or actually listen, here: Kwiek, Marek. The prestige economy of higher education journals: a quantitative approach. Higher Education 81, 493–519 (2021). DOI: 10.1007/s10734-020-00553-y. youtube.com/watch?v=kwMa...

"Without academic freedom, we might not have antibiotics, nor a deep understanding of human behaviour. Literary criticism, climate models, and ecological restoration would be severely limited; just like ethical reflection on artificial intelligemce" www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/en/current/n...

Extremely happy! Extremely proud! Teamwork - works (w. @lukasz_szymula)! Never thought we could be that succesful! Three years from idea to publication.

Invitation! #Stanford, happy to be back! "Jumpers-Up and Droppers-Down in Research Productivity? No Chance, a Longitudinal Study of Research Productivity of 320,000 Late-Career Scientists" Registration: metrics.stanford.edu/metrics-inte... 9:00-10:00 PT Time (18:00-19:00 CET in Europe)

As part of Dialogues, a pilot by the nonprofit peer-tutoring platform Schoolhouse.world, students ages 14 to 18 built portfolios showcasing their ability to disagree respectfully with other peers on hot-button topics. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Back at #Stanford #METRICS with a story of 320,000 scientists from 38 countries! June 5. METRICS Marek Kwiek: "Jumpers-Up and Droppers-Down in Research Productivity? No Chance, a Longitudinal Study of Research Productivity of 320,000 Late-Career Scientists". metrics.stanford.edu/metrics-inte...

Interested why scholars and scientists publish in top journals? Look, or actually listen, here: Kwiek, Marek. The prestige economy of higher education journals: a quantitative approach. Higher Education 81, 493–519 (2021). DOI: 10.1007/s10734-020-00553-y. youtube.com/watch?v=kwMa...

"The scientific literature is at risk of becoming flooded with papers that make misleading health claims based on openly available data that are easy to process using artificial intelligence (AI) tools, researchers have warned." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"This summer school Open Science aims at providing a critical view on the “rules of a game named science,” and provides an introduction to remedies to the manifold issues jeopardizing the credibility of scientific results". www.uibk.ac.at/en/weiterbil...

"For what many believe is the first time in its long history, Harvard University has stripped a one-time superstar professor at Harvard Business School of tenure." poetsandquants.com/2025/05/26/h...

The University and College Union (UCU) has threatened to escalate its campaign against cuts to higher education funding by starting an industrial dispute with the education minister. ... exploring options that could see a sector-wide strike www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-thr...

An academic career – once considered “highly desirable” with “many perks and a robust future” – is steadily losing its appeal, a new report has warned. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/change-...

"Geographically, traditional academic destinations such as Germany, the United States, and Switzerland have absorbed the majority of emigrating researchers, while non-traditional destinations, such as Armenia, the United Arab Emirates, and Kazakhstan". doi.org/10.31219/osf...

"The EU AI Act transforms educators into regulated operators of high-risk AI systems when using artificial intelligence for student evaluation, creating unprecedented personal liability exposures". 15 MIL EUR per lecturer? ai4tl.blogspot.com/2025/05/educ...

#Books. We #love 'em. We are still #writing 'em. Expect a new book on "The #Global Academic Profession". Quantitive study of hundreds of #thousands of scientists & scholars. Rigorous #methodologies. Cohort-based, #longitudinal, micro-level datasets, individuals Soon.

"The findings reveal which research topics have “disappeared” over time and which have “migrated” from Chinese- to English-language venues, often leading to broader self-censorship outcomes than the regime intended." www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

"While scientific outputs should remain ‘as #open as possible, as #closed as necessary’, the Open Science community must safeguard the progress achieved so far and promote #openness as a driver of #innovation, collaboration and #economic growth". www.eua.eu/our-work/exp...

Exactly. Academics in the US are on the roller coaster, that's for sure. I will be seeking American scientists from my area, the science of science, quantitative science studies, soon. Polish funding from the national research Council. The money for Americans willing to work with us here.

The paper discusses the efforts to model science as a complex multi-layered system using ideas from ecology, evolution theory, and the latest advancements in artificial intelligence and other types of modeling. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Now you xan just LISTEN to a penetrating discussion about our research here: youtu.be/5hpwf-yxHv4?...

Under the banner of ‘knowledge security’ and increased focus on dual-use research, doctoral candidates and their research are increasingly becoming the focus of security policy debates and geopolitical strategies. www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile....

#Personally, I would never publish anything in #Frontiers, #MDPI et consortes. Never ever! Publishing in #predatory journals destroys #individual academic #careers and spoils the images of whole #insitutions. Not a waste of #money; a waste of academic #recognition. Think twice bft sending your ms

Thrilled to see our research on the #cover of @FEBS_Letters! Cudos to Duncan Wright, ed! This research on #Attrition in #global science was featured in "#Nature" before publicat! "Who’s quitting academia? Data reveal #gender #gaps in surprising fields" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Kind of #TikTok #challenge for Social scientis #globally: how many #Sara' (the founder and owner) phenomenal #methodological books in the #Sage series do you have at home? I have 37 of them, all bought over the past two #decades. And you? Can you take the #picture, for her, for us!

Thrilled to see our research on the #cover of @FEBS_Letters! Cudos to Duncan Wright, ed! This research on #Attrition in #global science was featured in "#Nature" before publicat! "Who’s quitting academia? Data reveal #gender #gaps in surprising fields" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Just thrilled to see our research on the #cover of FEBS Letters! Out research on #Attrition and #Retention in #global science was featured in #"Nature" before publication in FEBS Letters! "Who’s quitting academia? Data reveal #gender #gaps in surprising fields" - www.nature.com/articles/d41...